Land Management/ Urban design

Essential Questions:

Chapter 10:

How can we design our cities to be vibrant places to live and sustainable?

Vocabulary:

Land use

Tragedy of the commons

Externalities (positive and negative)

Maximum sustained yield

Resource Conservation Ethic

Public/private lands

Taylor Grazing act of 1934

Clear cutting / selective cutting

fire suppression / prescribed burns

Federal Agencies

NPS, USFS, BLM, FWS

Urban Planning

suburban / urban/ rural

urban sprawl / urban blight / induced demand

Smart Growth

Mixed use, walk-able neighborhoods, greenbelts, transit oriented development, infill, urban growth boundaries, sense of place

Presentations

Land management

Media:

Carrboro's 2020 plan

Boston's Environmental Inventory

(start reading on page 22 for some good ideas)

Assignment:

Urban Design Project

Answers to end of chapter questions:

Chapter 10 Chapter 11

  1. d 1. a
  2. b 2. e
  3. c 3. d
  4. a 4. c
  5. e 5. e
  6. a 6. a
  7. a 7. c
  8. c 8. b
  9. e 9. d
  10. a 10. d
  11. b 11. a
  12. 12. b
  13. 13. e
  14. 14. c
  15. 15. a